Originally Posted by meatbomb
Hi,
Ok point taken, its crap pay and its crap lifestyle as you spend a lot of time away from home. Im sat in a dropzone office where im a skydiving instructor ( i actually own the school ) . This job is the same for most , crap money and crap hours... however theres one reason they keep doing ( as I did for years before opening my own school )... we love the job. I am fortunate I suppose to have some life behind me and dont have to flog the family silver or sell beg a bank to give me the dough ... I do take warning though from the thought that nobody here seems to talk about flying a plane.. i guess its just not fun.
Im in Europe where people do seem also to be a lot more optimistic about aviation though. IF airlines were the end goal theres 100 slots coming up in the next 6 months for low timers across Europe.. Also several LCC pilots have learned to skydive with us in the last six months and all of them loved their job. Three pilots who have flown for me in the last 3 years are now in regionals and 1 is flying 737īs.
You have to consider the source. I doubt that many grown men with families would be happy about conditions at Ryan Air. Young 20 somethings are easy to impress with any flying job but once you have some real responsibilities it taints the airline life quite a bit. In the end it is just another way to call yourself employed but most likely will not provide much of a living or life. I would stick with skydiving if I were you. The guy in the jump plane gets more satisfaction and joy out of a single jump run than an airline pilot gets in a year.
SkyHigh
I use to fly smokejumpers in Alaska and in the rest of the country. Now that was fun !!!